British Radio Comedy

British Radio Comedy

Radio comedy has not only entertained audiences for some 70 years, but it’s also been a medium for change in British society itself. Bandwaggon established a new formula of comedy sketches and music. At the beginning of the war, it was a wonderful boost for morale. After the War, there was the famous Goon Show,…

Much Binding in the Marsh

Much Binding in the Marsh

Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh was the title of a comedy BBC radio and Radio Luxembourg show broadcast from 1944 to 1954, starring Kenneth Horne and Richard Murdoch as senior staff in a fictional RAF station battling red tape and wartime inconvenience. Over the years the station turned to non-combatant operations, became a country club (“the proposed membership drive…

The Navy Lark

The Navy Lark

The Navy Lark was a BBC radio comedy written by Laurie Wyman and George Evans about the crew of The Royal Navy ship HMS Troutbridge and their mis-adventures. The show was first aired on The Light Programme in 1959 and ran for fifteen series until 1976 making it the second longest running radio programme the…